https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
For a company based in the most racism-sensitive part of the Western world, they do not seem to care as much for non-American instances thereof. Their response in Myanmar was far from adequate. They took down a few accounts after a few months and that was that.
Let's take into account that parler (and other platforms) caused 1 night of rioting.
Facebook caused GENOCIDE - the active killing of a population.
> you can always let know authorities about any danger, report and ban users
One contradicts the other? They didn't do #2, so #1 happened.
How much does this really cost them? I doubt Parler has that much money to put up a big legal fight.
This is a cheap a PR win for Amazon.
If tech companies shut down services that are actively supporting an existential threat to the US as a constitutional republic, it seems to me that it's their clear moral and ethical duty to stop providing service to those threats if at all possible.
Furthermore, at this point it's clearly in their self interest to break all ties with Parler, since they open themselves to liability if Parler organizes another successful terrorist attack, now that they know that such activities are being organized there.
If anything, I would argue that they should have policed that content in a much more opinionated fashion far sooner. It's only because things have escalated to the point of violence that it's now so controversial.
Let me give an example to illustrate - suppose that Al Queda, or ISIS, or some other terrorist organization was using AWS or GCP. Would it be so controversial to refuse service to those organizations then? At the very least I don't see why as private businesses they couldn't decide that serving such organizations is too much risk to take on.
And as we all know twitter applies their community guidelines equally on all its users regardless of their political stance.
From all accounts Parler was self-moderated by the community and links such as the following are still present:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErTzgBxXcAAuTkC?format=jpg&name=...